Yearly Archives: 2007

the sides, oh the sides

Becoming a passenger on a trip that I usually drive opens my eyes to the sides: I see not as driver, focused ahead and behind seldom to sides, but as rider. And there on the sides for the rider to … Continue reading

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kid

Years cannot erase the sad fatigue in the little boy’s eyes. I do not know how he and his mother and threadbare siblings stayed warm in the winter nights before welfare. I just wish I could hug him now.

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reentry

The cool crowded emptiness seems hollow: what we left so full of life sealed for winter like a bear in a cave or a seed in a tomb— all the intervening history, rain, blowing dead leaves, snow, icy winds silence— … Continue reading

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